Comparing intrapartum CTG monitoring guidelines
Which fetal monitoring guideline is the best one to use?
What’s the deal with early decelerations and head compression?
Why is it no longer OK to teach that early decelerations are due to head compression?
What’s new in research?
Post term risks, colour coded CTG interpretation, anaemia, and bias – research that caught my eye recently
New horizons for fetal monitoring: Photoacoustic assessment of the fetal brain and placenta
There is increasing recognition that CTG monitoring hasn’t delivered on its promise to accurately identify the fetus who would benefit from early birth, and therefore has failed to improve perinatal outcomes. This has opened a space for researchers to begin to investigate novel approaches that might prove to be a better tool than the CTG. One of these novel technologies is photo-acoustic assessment. Kang and colleagues from Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, […]
Four things every person working in maternity care needs to know about CTGs
Here are the four things I wish everyone working in maternity care knew about CTG monitoring
Being with woman, not with machine
CTGs draw attention from the woman to the technology. Can different technology solve the problem?
Could this be the solution? Transabdominal fetal oximetry
Could measuring oxygen levels of the fetus directly be the answer we are looking for? @ChristineEast2
Thru the Pinard podcast: Talking about PhDs
I caught up with midwife and academic Liz McNeill recently. She hosts the Thru the Pinard podcast which aims to support midwives (and perhaps the occasional obstetrician even!) who are navigating the wonderful world of doctoral research. We talked about lots of things, including the importance of working with a great supervisory team and how important it is to never PhD alone. You can listen to our conversation here. Follow […]
Physiological CTG interpretation – I have questions
The history of maternity care is littered with stories of half-baked science that becomes embedded in practice and only too late is discovered to be ineffective and challenging to step away from.
Birth Small Talk 